School of John Flaxman (British, 1755-1826) Odysseus Consulting Tiresias, Scene from The Odyssey. Unsigned, attributed and titled in inscriptions and clippings affixed to the frame backing paper. Two pen and ink drawings abutted in a common mat, sight size 5 3/8 x 6 in. (13.8 x 15.0 cm),framed. Condition: Minor rippling, pale staining, small repair c.l. edge, toning, not examined out of frame. N.B. Flaxman began his career as a designor of cameos and classical friezes for Josiah Wedgwood His line drawings illustrating Classical literature won him fame across Europe. The drawings at hand relate closely to a wood engraving after a Roman relief (marble, 4th quarter of the 1st century AD) in the Louvre museum, Paris, published in 1868.
School of John Flaxman (British, 1755-1826) Odysseus Consulting Tiresias, Scene from The Odyssey. Unsigned, attributed and titled in inscriptions and clippings affixed to the frame backing paper. Two pen and ink drawings abutted in a common mat, sight size 5 3/8 x 6 in. (13.8 x 15.0 cm),framed. Condition: Minor rippling, pale staining, small repair c.l. edge, toning, not examined out of frame. N.B. Flaxman began his career as a designor of cameos and classical friezes for Josiah Wedgwood His line drawings illustrating Classical literature won him fame across Europe. The drawings at hand relate closely to a wood engraving after a Roman relief (marble, 4th quarter of the 1st century AD) in the Louvre museum, Paris, published in 1868.
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